Anne Rice Essay Research Paper Anne Rice

Anne Rice Essay, Research Paper

Anne Rice: A Fascinating Story Because of her fascination with the supernatural, her life

in New Orleans, and her daughter’s death, Anne Rice exhibits powerful and dark

emotions in her writings.

Anne Rice’s family life was not always a happy one. Her family was one of the lower

middle class, struggling to make it. Katherine, her mother, became stressed over keeping

a household and took to drinking. Anne’s mom continued this habit

throughout her life. I feel that this drinking had a major effect on Anne’s writing style.

Anne’s books are full of vivid detail. They are written as if they were seen through the eyes of a drunk.

Anne’s mother continued drinking until the day of her death in 1956. Katherine’s death hit her daughter very hard. Since her mother had died, Anne had

to become a mother to her two younger sisters, Tamara and Karen. Anne hated to

assume this role and looked for a way out. Her father gave this to her in the form of St. Joseph Academy, a boarding school. This was not a very good solution

considering how much Anne hated the school. She cried every night for about a year,

and would later write about her experiences an a novel, The Witching Hour. When Anne

became sixteen her father remarried. Howard(Anne’s father) and his new wife, Dorothy,

decided to move to Texas to follow Howard’s’ work. This decision shocked Anne and she

was very opposed; the move still took place.

At her new school, Anne met a boy named Stan Rice. Stan was very involved with

poetry and he and Anne instantly hit it off. Stan had an influence on Anne like no other

person had. He was the first boy she kissed which was an experience she wrote about

in her second novel, The Feast of All Saints- here is the excerpt.

Richard had kissed Marie and she had never felt a sensation akin to what she’d

experienced when he was holding her lightly, gently, as if he might break her, in his

arms. His hands had spread out firmly against her back, pressing her to his chest so that

the buttons of his frock coat had touched her breasts. And when that had happened, a

shock had passed through her, so keenly pleasurable that she had let her head fall back,

her lips apart, and felt that shock’s consummation in one shuddering instant as his lips

pressed against hers. . . She had been obliterated in that instant, everything she had

ever been taught had been obliterated, all that she was before had simply gone away.

In 1961 Stan proposed to Anne by telegram. She accepted, and on October fourteenth

they were married.

Anne and Stan began experimenting with drugs as a way to express

emotions more fully, and to appreciate themselves more. Anne shows this new

outlook on life (that of being “high”) as a way to experience things like none other. Such

an experience is the way a vampire first sees the world when he becomes a vampire.

Here is an outtake of Interview With the Vampire that shows this new vision. (Ramsland,

96) It was as if I had only just been able to see colors and shapes for the first time. I

was so enthralled with the buttons on Lestat’s black coat that I looked at nothing else

for a long time. . . When I saw the moon on the flagstones, I

became so enamored with it that I must have spent over an hour there . . . and with my

awakened senses, I had to preside over the death of my body . . . I simply regret I was

not more attentive to the process.

This excerpt is the way the main character in Interview With the Vampire, Louis, sees

the world through his “Vampire Eyes”. After smoking marijuana and experimenting with

LSD for about a year Anne had a disturbing vision. She began wondering what happens

when a person dies and if that person knows they are dead.

She was on the verge of insanity for several months, but

recovered by not using drugs. She started a new job and her life improved, then she

became pregnant. Anne was very happy about becoming pregnant, and

looked forward to becoming a mother. Her daughter was born Michele Rice and was very

special to Anne. One night Anne had a very disturbing dream. Her dream was about

Michele, in which Anne’s daughter was suffocating because of something in her blood.

Anne Considered this to be a premonition and watched over her daughter very carefully

for about a month. There were no problems, so Anne thought her

worries were over. That very year Michele began to get sick. Anne took her now four

year-old daughter to the doctor where she was diagnosed with acute granuleucytic

leukemia. Michele lived until 1972 when she died on a hospital bed. , Two years later Anne wrote about the loss of her daughter through the

eyes of Louis in Interview With the Vampire. Here is the

outtake-

I looked up and saw myself in a most palpable vision ascending the altar steps, opening

the tiny sacrosanct tabernacle, reaching with monstrous hands for the consecrated

ciborium, and taking th

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